ART. 6.] CAROLINE COUNTY.

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Denton is bounded and described on the plats thereof
recorded in the office of the clerk of the circuit court
in and for Caroline county.

Bounds.

51. The male inhabitants of the town of Denton,
who have resided therein for six months, and twelve
months in the state next preceding the election, shall
on the first Monday of April annually, elect five per-
sons who have resided in said town twelve months
previous to the election, and who at the time are
conducting some business or have a family therein,

Ibid. s. 2.
Election of
town commis-
sioners

commissioners for said town for the ensuing year;
and that Henry Blackiston, John c. Fountrain, John
H. Emerson, William M. McMahan and Alexander
B. Glanden, are hereby appointed and made the com-
missioners of said town, until their successors are
elected and qualified, and all acts of theirs, as com-
missioners, shall be as valid as if they were elected,
and at their first meeting one of said commissioners
shall be elected president of the board.

Commissioners

52. The election for said commissioners shall be
held between the hours of two and four o'clock, P.
M., of the said first Monday in April, annually, as
aforesaid, by a judge who shall be appointed by the
commissioners in office, which said judge, before lie

Ibid s. 3.
Election, when
to be held.

opens an election, shall take an oath before a justice
of the peace, that he will faithfully and impartially
permit every person to vote at the election, who shall
be qualified to vote for a commissioner of said town,
and that he will not permit any person to vote at
such election who shall not, in his judgment, be

Judge's oath.

qualified to vote, and should any vacancy occur in
the office, of one or more of the commissioners, by
death, resignation, removal or otherwise, the remain-
ing commissioners shall cause an election to be held
at such, public place in said town as they shall ap-
point, by the persons qualified to vote, to fill such
vacancy, of which said election ten days' previous

Vacancies
among commissioners

notice shall be given, and if at any time an election
shall not be had for commissioners at the time spoken
of in the second section of this act, an election may

Notice.